Fraser Gillespie's "Twentysix Olympia Variants" (2025)

London, England: Back Door Press (book, lettered, signed), 2025.
7" x 5.5" x 0.25", 60 pages, softcover, no ISBN.

Twentysix Olympia Variants by Olympia Press collector/scholar Fraser Gillespie, as published in a limited edition of twenty-six lettered and signed copies by Back Door Press (London, England) in October 2025. 

This is a book in the style of Ed Ruscha, highlighting twenty-six titles by Olympia Press. This shows both the 1962 Olympia Catalogue (which included works by Burroughs) and the cover of Burroughs’ The Naked Lunch, with a quote from the book.

This copy is letter 'U' of the twenty-six lettered copies, and is signed by author Fraser Gillespie on the title page. This was acquired directly from the author.

Titles Shown:

• Maurice Girodias: 1962 Olympia Press Catalogue
• Henry Jones [John Coleman]: The Enormous Bed
• Henry Miller: Plexus
• Jim Dobbs: Flesh Raffle
• Melissa Franklin [Mary McChesney]: Nymphs, Horses & Athletes
• Francis Pollini: Night
• Aubrey Beardsley and John Glassco: Under the Hill
• P. F. Catcher: Sweet Elixir
• Pauline Réage [Anne Desclos]: The Story of O
• Tor Kung [Jean McLean and Jack Gilbert]: My Mother Taught Me
• J. P. Donleavy: The Ginger Man
• Valerie Solanas: S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men)
• Peter Lewys [Pierre Louÿs]: The She-Devils
• Alastair Galt: Focus All
• Greta X [John Millington-Ward]: There's a Whip in My Valise
• Akbar del Piombo [Norman Rubington]: Fuzz Against Junk
• Karl Flinders [Milton Saul]: Up Daddy
• Bernhardt von Soda [Robert Waltz]: The Beaten and the Hungry
• Samuel Beckett: Watt
• Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
• Christopher Logue, ed: Count Palmiro Vicarion's Book of Limericks
• Dirk Vanden [Richard Fullmer]: All Is Well
• Frances Lengel [Alexander Trocchi]: The Carnal Days of Helen Seferis
• Sheila Foster [Michael Bernet]: Solo Whore: The Making of a London Prostitute
• William Burroughs: The Naked Lunch
• Steve Cannon: Groove, Bag and Jive Around